Scott Lyttle (Pure Black Racing) is the race leader and will wear the yellow jersey at the start of the day. Word is that Gord Fraser's Realcyclist.com team will work to get Francisco Mancebo into the leaders position by the end of the day, so there should be some great racing. Mancebo's right hand man Thomas Rabou is coming back from a broken wrist, so there is some concern he will be up to the task.

UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team will be looking for some redemption after yesterday's debacle, and of course Spidertech will also be looking to move their riders up in GC.

And they are on the road with a flurry of attacks from the gun.

10:30 am - all together at 17 km in

10:38 am - At 23 km and we have a lone rider- Jamie Riggs (Garneau-Club Chaussures- Norton Rose)- away with a gap of 20 seconds

10:49 am - Double flat for Frank Parisien (Spidertech) but a quick change, some help from the team and he is safely back in the peloton

Darren Rolfe (Fly V Australia), Daniel Dominguez (Fuji-Cyclingtime.com) and Ian Burnett (Realcyclist.com) have been dropped from the lead bunch are now at 45 sec back. Peloton is losing ground, gap now 4 min to leaders

12:21 pm - At 91.4 km the gap is 4:25

12:33 pm - FlyV has now gone to the front of the peloton and are driving the chase. Lyttle's ownership of the lead is not in jeopardy untill the gap goes over 20 min.

12:45 pm - 106 km completed, and the gap is coming down. Now under 3 min

12:49 pm - Gap continues to fall, now 2 min

1:04 pm - Leaders have passed 120 km. Fly V doing most of the work at the front of the peloton and the gap is down below 1:40

1:18 pm - Leaders are now at the 2nd and final KOM of the day and the gap is below 2 min. With just over 30 km to go, it is mostly a downhill run to the finish

1:23 pm - The leaders have picked up their pace and 2 riders have been dropped from the group: Ilesic Ino (Team Type 1 sanofi-aventis) and Matthias Friedemann (Champion System)

1:30 pm - 25 km to go and the gap is under 1 min. Lead group now down to just 4